On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 1:53 PM Alex Perez <aperez@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Daniel Pocock wrote on 2/22/21 10:41 AM: > > I feel that you underestimate the impact of the GPU driver issue > > > > If the GPU driver doesn't work, people can't even log in and get started > > > > If the GPU vendors don't test their code on ppc64le (and aarch64) then > > those platforms will always lag behind x86. Users will experience > > issues that have been fixed in the development phase for x86. > > > > Personally, I'm not opposed to the 64k page size in principle: my > > concerns are about the practical issues. > > > > If both 4k and 64k can be supported, if users can choose between > > installers for either page size, then the severity of the issue is reduced > > How practical/impractical would it be to simply compile the ppc64le > kernel for both page sizes, and then add a boot entry to GRUB for 4k > page sizes, which is not the default. > > Another option could be an official ppc64le-4K Fedora Spin. Not practical at all. This is not just a simple matter of building another flavor of kernel, though even that is a lot to ask, and honestly, we have turned off flavors that had more users than I expect ppc64le workstation will have any time soon. But you still have the issue of writing special casing code for dnf at the very least. To be a full solution you would also need such code in anaconda and image building tools. Justin _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
